We had an amazing Sew Day over the weekend. At the peak, we had more than 30 people sewing and socializing. We get that many at our holiday party, but I am not sure we have ever had that many at a regular Sew Day. I knew we might have some new people, so we set up some extra tables in advance. We still didn’t have enough seats. I guess the message is that people need to show up on time if they want a seat. 😉
We had the 8YO son of our Founder join us. He is working with his mom to make a quilt for his bed. This means we are encouraging the younger generation to get into sewing. He was very focused!
We had another parent/’child’ team as well. Roberta is a new member who brought her daughter Michelle. They intend to work on projects together, which is a great way to get together.
I brought the Pandora Charisma, which needed a few more steps, some of which were riveting. Mary helped me use her rivet press to add a few more rivets to various places on the bag. I am super happy with the riveting.
News Flash: the Pandora Charisma is finished. People were really impressed. I just felt tired after struggling with it for so many weeks (which feels like years!).
SueS is having a problem with her hand, so I offered to cut some pieces out for her. She was very well organized, so the task was easy. She also stood with me and kept me on track, which was great. I brought a ruler that was the exact size of the pieces she needed, which made the task easier. All-in-all a good effort.
The UFO Challenge Team had a mini-show and tell where finished and in-progress #12 items were shown. Not everything got finished, but everyone was inspired to work on a project that had been sitting around for a long time.
They also drew the next number, #9 was selected. For me, that is an extra large project bag. I have the fabric quilted, but need to cut out the other pieces and put the whole thing together.
Later in the day, I also started cutting out the Tadpole pouches. Now that I am done with the Pandora Charisma, I am going to work on some easier projects. While I was doing that Tim was working on one of his Jittery Wings quilts.
The picture shows the start of it and it just got better the more he put up on the wall.
Mary decided a few weeks ago to create a design wall that we could put up and take down. She came with a big piece of Velcro and installed it. The next step is making a piece of felt big enough to cover the space. We only had a small piece of felt, but Tim agreed to make a larger one. It will be great and the location is awesome: right next to some large windows.
I raced around so didn’t get time to catch up with many people, but I chatted to some and that was great.
